Auto industry: Chip shortage depresses VW sales in 2021 – E-models strongly in the plus

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Chip shortage depresses VW sales in 2021 – E-models strongly in the plus

The chip crisis and other supply problems caused sales at Volkswagen to slide again significantly in the second Corona year of 2021. Photo: Swen Pförtner / dpa

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Not only the corona pandemic, but also the global shortage of chips is having a negative impact on Volkswagen’s business. And demand is falling in China and North America.

The chip crisis and other supply problems caused sales at Volkswagen to slide again significantly in the second Corona year 2021.

As the company announced on Wednesday, deliveries of the Group’s core brand VW Passenger Cars recently fell by 8.1 percent worldwide compared to the pandemic-related, already weak year 2020. In total, the Wolfsburg-based company got rid of just under 4.9 million vehicles from their main division, after a little more than 5.3 million in the previous year. The decline was particularly strong in China, while North America increased.

“The massive semiconductor-related effects on production could not be fully compensated for over the course of the year,” said Sales Director Klaus Zellmer. In view of these “extraordinarily challenging conditions”, the overall performance in terms of sales is still satisfactory.

Things went much better if you only consider hybrid or fully electric cars instead of all types of drive. According to Volkswagen, there was then a very strong increase in deliveries of around 73 percent to over 369,000 models sold in 2021 compared to 2020. Among them were around 263,000 pure electric vehicles.

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